the affairs of state

tricky

Day after day passed by.(the flow of time)

It is even Stephen.

quack medicine(plaster formerly spread on a small piece of dogskin,with a better curative effect than other plasters.)

The voice of singing reverberates round the beams.

Cover up

look round the corner

be unprecedented from time immemorial

attend to one thing and lose sight of another

snatch like a dog and crow like a cock

one bachelor(One's hat covers one's family.)

fine words

complacent and conservative

relapse into(return to one's vomit)

put on the new man

honourable men easily forget(Great men are apt to have short memories)

be too numerous to count

rest content with lagging behind

sleep peacefully without anxiety